Donald E. Westlake Quotes

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

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• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Sick
  • Walk

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Team
  • Attention

• Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Fighting
  • Sword

• If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • People
  • Music
  • True

• Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Country

• Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Great
  • Power

• Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mother
  • Worship
  • Candle

• Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Mother
  • Boy